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The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis (1986)
★3.00(1)
Like 'Ending Up', this novel offers a darkly humorous look at aging and societal decline.
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Ending Up
by Kingsley Amis (1974)
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"At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs ..."--Publisher description.
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